Antiabortion Groups Ask FDA
To Withdraw Mifeprex Approval

By

Sarah Lueck Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 21, 2002 12:41 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Antiabortion groups are demanding the Food and Drug Administration immediately ban the Mifeprex abortion pill, saying it jeopardizes women's health and that the agency broke its own rules in approving it.

In a 90-page petition, Concerned Women for America, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Christian Medical Association charged that the agency, bending to pressure from...